How to Hold Space For Your Partner When Emotions Are High: Episode 150
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
If you have been listening to this podcast, you now know that escalating conflicts and argument hangovers are not from what started the disagreement, but what you said or did after that. It's when you think to yourself "I don't even remember what started this!" Part of why this happens is because we are not great at "Holding Space" for our partners when they have high emotions or are emotionally triggered.
For some this might be a new term, holding space. In this episode you will hear about what this really means and then you will get 5 things to do so that you can hold space for your partner. By doing this, you allow for an environment of acceptance and love for you and your partner to have emotions and not make that wrong. It's a powerful opportunity to connect deeper and develop emotional intimacy… when you appropriately hold space for the emotions they are having.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast where here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:06.1 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team. |
| 0:11.3 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your host, Erin Freeman. |
| 0:14.3 | And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. |
| 0:17.7 | And this episode is about how to hold space for your partner when emotions are high. |
| 0:23.1 | Yeah, this episode is going to cover the thing that is not easy at all. |
| 0:28.1 | How to hold space for your partner when they're triggered, when they are experiencing a certain |
| 0:32.7 | emotion that's uncomfortable to you. |
| 0:35.7 | And I'm raising my hand as someone who was not good at this in the past. |
| 0:40.0 | I'll raise my hand too. |
| 0:41.1 | Yeah, and I think most of us haven't been great at this because we didn't learn it growing up. |
| 0:46.3 | You know, we don't have a culture where we're even really that comfortable with emotions. |
| 0:50.6 | And so this is a topic we really need to dive into. |
| 0:53.2 | And can be completely honest for myself here, I did not think that this title was going to work |
| 0:59.2 | because I didn't think that most people knew what holding space meant. |
| 1:03.9 | And then Jocelyn put in Instagram a poll and this got the most votes. |
| 1:09.8 | Oh, so many. |
| 1:10.8 | Like I had three topics. which I was surprised about. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah, we'll cover the other ones as well because I know a bunch of you voted for the others, |
| 1:16.7 | but this was by far the topic that you guys wanted us to cover. Yeah. And to be honest for myself, |
| 1:22.2 | being honest here twice in the beginning, which I'll probably do more here. I did not really know what this holding space |
| 1:29.8 | term meant until a few years ago. I don't know, it's been used in like the spiritual kind of |
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